Saturday, 27 July 2013

augustine

"If the sentence is one of command,
either forbidding a crime or vice, or enjoining an act of prudence or
benevolence, it is not figurative. If, however, it seems to enjoin a
crime or vice, or to forbid an act of prudence or benevolence, it is
figurative. "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man," says Christ,
"and drink His blood, ye have no life in you." [John 6:53] This seems
to enjoin a crime or a vice; it is therefore a figure, enjoining that
we should have a share in the sufferings of our Lord, and that we
should retain a sweet and profitable memory of the fact that His flesh
was wounded and crucified for us." Christian Doctrine (3:16)